Big Game Shooting, Volume I

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Author

Phillipps-Wolley, Clive, 1854-1918

Title

Big Game Shooting, volume 1 (of 2)

Credits

Produced by Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

SK: Agriculture: Hunting sports

Subject

Game and game-birds

Category

Text

eBook-No.

48584

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48584

Release Date

March 25, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.BIG GAME SHOOTING
2. 2.DEDICATION TO H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME
5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE FIRST VOLUME — FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS — WOODCUTS IN TEXT
6. 6.BIG GAME SHOOTING
7. 7.CHAPTER I ON BIG GAME SHOOTING GENERALLY — Still Hunting
8. 8.CHAPTER II SOUTH AFRICA FIFTY YEARS AGO — WILLIAM COTTON OSWELL: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH — INTRODUCTION — FIRST EXPEDITION TO AFRICA
9. 9.CHAPTER III SECOND EXPEDITION TO SOUTH AFRICA
10. 10.CHAPTER IV LATER VISITS TO SOUTH AFRICA
11. 11.CHAPTER V WITH LIVINGSTONE IN SOUTH AFRICA
12. 12.CHAPTER VI EAST AFRICA—BATTERY, DRESS, CAMP GEAR AND STORES — DRESS — CAMP GEAR — STORES, ETC.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII GAME DISTRICTS AND ROUTES
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII THE CARAVAN, HEADMAN, GUN-BEARERS, ETC.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX HINTS ON EAST AFRICAN STALKING, DRIVING, ETC.
16. 16.CHAPTER X THE ELEPHANT
17. 17.CHAPTER XI THE AFRICAN BUFFALO
18. 18.CHAPTER XII THE LION
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII THE RHINOCEROS
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV THE HIPPOPOTAMUS
21. 21.CHAPTER XV OSTRICHES AND GIRAFFES
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI ANTELOPES — ELAND — BRINDLED WILDEBEEST — COKE’S HARTEBEEST — LICHTENSTEIN’S HARTEBEEST — JACKSON’S HARTEBEEST — THE TOPI — DAMALIS HUNTERI — ROAN ANTELOPE — SABLE ANTELOPE — EAST AFRICAN ORYX — KOBUS KOB — LESSER REEDBUCK — GRANT’S GAZELLE — THOMSON’S GAZELLE — PETERS’ GAZELLE — ABYSSINIAN ORIBI — EAST AFRICAN ORIBI — STEINBUCK — WATERBUCK — THE SING-SING — THE GREATER KUDU — LESSER KUDU — BUSH-BUCK — IMPALA — LITHOCRANIUS WALLERI — THE DUYKER — BLUE BUCK — THE KLIPSPRINGER — THE PAA — GRAVE ISLAND GAZELLE — THE SITATUNGA
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII THE LION IN SOUTH AFRICA
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII BIG GAME OF NORTH AMERICA — I. PANTHER ( Felis concolor ) — II. THE GRIZZLY ( Ursus horribilis ) — III. BLACK BEAR ( Ursus americanus ) — IV. BISON OR BUFFALO ( Bison americanus ) — V. THE BIGHORN ( Ovis montana ) — VI. THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT ( Haploceros montanus ) — VII. THE PRONGHORN ANTELOPE ( Antilocapra americana ) — VIII. THE DEER OF AMERICA — (1) Moose ( C. alces ) — (2) The Wapiti ( C. canadensis ) — (3) Woodland Caribou ( C. tarandus ). — (4) Barren Ground Caribou ( C. tarandus arcticus ) — (5) Mule Deer ( C. macrotis ) — (6) The White-Tail ( C. virginianus ) — (7) The Black-Tail ( C. columbianus ) — NOTE ON CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN BIG GAME
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX MUSK OX
26. 26.FOOTNOTES
27. 27.INDEX TO THE FIRST VOLUME

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